 I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that. |
| The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer. |
| If life throws you a lemon - make lemonade. |
| And we have not found any generational gap at all. If he wants to go a football game, he goes. If I want to go to a fashion show, I go. We don't have to do everything together. But we like doing most things together. |
| I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife. |
| I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama. |
| I think, Larry, one of the things is I'm a very active person. |
| The easiest way to convince my kids that they don't really need something is to get it for them. |
| I don't believe in dieting. |
| I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it. |
| But I have had to give up certain things in my life. One is shopping. Two is lunch with the girls. Three is cocktail parties, and four is studying my lines. |
| I consider you as old as you look and feel. And in that case I feel - I feel I'm about 39, like Jack Benny. |
| And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years. |
